Yang Lien-sheng
| Yang Lien-sheng | |||||||||||
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| Born |
July 26, 1914 Baoding, Hebei Province, Republic of China |
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| Died | November 16, 1990 (aged 76) Arlington, Massachusetts, United States |
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| Institutions | Harvard University | ||||||||||
| Alma mater |
Tsinghua University (B.A.) Harvard University (A.M., Ph.D.) |
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| Traditional Chinese | 楊聯陞 | ||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 杨联升 | ||||||||||
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| Standard Mandarin | |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Yáng Liánshēng |
| Wade–Giles | Yang2 Lien2-sheng1 |
| IPA | [jǎŋ ljɛ̌n.ʂə́ŋ] |
Yang Lien-sheng (Chinese: 楊聯陞; July 26, 1914 – November 16, 1990) who often wrote under the name L.S. Yang, was a Chinese-American sinologist and professor at Harvard University. He was the first full-time historian of China at Harvard and a prolific scholar specializing in China's economic history.
Yang entered Tsinghua University in 1933 and studied in the department of economics, graduating in 1937. As an undergraduate, he would have preferred to study liberal arts, but because of his father's preference, he entered the department of economics. He nonetheless studied with the eminent historian Chen Yinke, who supervised his thesis. Other professors and influences included Qian Mu, Lei Haizong, and Tao Xisheng in Chinese studies, and in English, Ye Gongchao (George Yeh). Yang also benefited from instruction in the Japanese language from Qian Daosun, whom Yang later scorned for becoming a puppet administrator for the Japanese after 1938. On the introduction of Zhou Yiliang, Yang became language tutor to Charles Sidney Gardner. Gardner became a professor at Harvard, and helped Yang to enroll there, and was especially helpful to Yang after he arrived.
In 1940, Yang started graduate work at Harvard University, receiving his M.A. degree in 1942. Charles Gardner provided not only practical help, but moral support. He then assisted Y.R. Chao in a wartime language program for the United States military, and collaborated with Chao on the Concise Dictionary of Spoken Chinese (Harvard University Press, 1947), noted as one of the first dictionaries of whole Chinese words rather than Chinese characters. In 1946, he received his PhD degree for his doctoral thesis, “Notes on the Economic History of the Chin Dynasty." (晉書·食貨志譯注). After becoming assistant professor in 1947, in 1958 he became full professor. He taught many graduate students who went on to careers in the field, including Yu Ying-shih, Kao Yu-kung, Chang Fu-mei, Chang Chun-shu, and Rulan Chao Pian.
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